Venezuelan Food Crisis

Throughout this assignment, our job as students was to develop a plan in order to have knowledge about the country we were planning to discuss, the country I decided to talk about in this assignment is Venezuela. Venezuela was given the name of Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela since 1999. Venezuela is located on the northern coast of South America, the country is compromised with numerous islands from the Caribbean Sea. It borders Brazil from the south,Colombia from the west and Guyana from the east. A little history about Venezuela, this country became a Spanish colony in the 1520’s. In 1830, Venezuela withdrew from Gran Colombia and became an independent republic. Most of Venezuela’s 19th century history was characterized by periods of political instability, dictatorial rule and then followed by a succession in the first half of the 20th century(CountryWatch). Hugo Chavez became president in 1999 and continuously became elected until 2013, the current president of Venezuela is Nicolas Maduro(CountryWatch).

Venezuela is a Spanish country located in South America. Venezuela was populated by Spain in 1522 and gained its independence from Spain on July 5th of 1811. Venezuela was also acknowledged on March 30, 1845. The current president of Venezuela is Nicolás Maduro. The Spanish country is bordered by Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Guyana, and Brazil. Caracas is the capital of Venezuela; Caracas is just one of the twenty-three states in Venezuela. Caracas was actually named one of the most violent cities in the world.

I do not think that they are going to be that much of food shortage in the futute. I feel like if ther is it can be solve. I think the problem is that we are creating too much food right now. I think we would still have enough food for everyone to eat with still making less food. I think this because of all the food that is wasted in America. It shows how we are making too much food or we not using the food wisly. We need to learn how to distributive the food better so everyone is getting the right amount calories. I feel like we have not talked about the future before, at least not that far in the future about producing food. I feel like that you can always grow more plants and crops for food. I think that animials can have baby anaimals

Venezuela, the neighbor of Colombia is dealing with food insecurity because Hugo Chavez failed to protect the people of Venezuela the right to have food. I chose this topic because I myself am Colombian and I hate seeing my neighboring country suffer from food insecurity. The scholarly article, The Right to Food under Hugo Chavez, that I will be using for this research paper was found in the FAU libraries using the SocINDEX database. The article is about how Hugo Chavez failed to protect Venezuelan’s right to food by establishing state-run stores where food can be purchased at a discounted price and by imposing price controls on food which led to the withdrawal of many food retailers thus reducing the absolute supply of food.

Venezuela officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a country on the northern coast of South America. It is known widely for its petroleum industry but it is now its roughest situations of all times. Milton Friedman once said that, if you put the government in charge of the Sahara desert, there’ll eventually be a shortage of sand. No wonder that, after 14 years of socialist government, Venezuela the country with the world’s largest oil reserves is currently importing gasoline. This fact highlights Venezuela’s agonizing dive into chaos as the economy crumbles and the nation’s social fabric unravels.

A final recommendation in winning the battle against food shortages in Cuba would be the use of organic fertilizers and bio-fertilizers. Currently, organic fertilizers include animal waste, plant residues, industrial and residential waste and organic household waste. In addition to organic fertilizers, bio-fertilizers can and should be used. Bio-fertilizers are a substance which contains microorganisms and promote the growth of a crop. The key to organic and bio-fertilizers are planning and volume. Solutions would include building composting bins in urban areas in each home’s backyard. If size does not allow, designating one large composting bin for the neighborhood in a central location is a possible solution. Although transporting waste

Over 135,000 Venezuelans waited on an international bridge to enter Colombia so that they could shop for food, toiletries, and medicine which are hardly available in any of the country's stores.

A long line of shoppers waited in front of the central Madeirense super market in Guarenas, Venezuela. The shoppers had been there since sunrise anticipating the arrival of a truck containing poultry. One shopper complained that she had not been able to buy chicken in more than a month. Once there, the failure of the driver to unload the poultry before leaving became the catalyst that created widespread anger and violence.

There have been political conflicts that are far beyond our reach in Venezuela. Venezuela has been known for being in a state of crisis for several years now, frustration within the community has been growing over food shortages, other materials, lack of security, and high inflation. According to Political Crisis in Venezuela, Patrick Duddy states that economic problems have been increasing, and possibly will lead them to catastrophe. The president of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, has not reacted to any of these emergencies lately, therefore leaving Venezuela to plummet, this can increase Venezuela’s political instability. Since the election of Nicholas Maduro, government facilities has become more strict and tight, says Duddy. Individuals like

Daron Acemoglu and Terry Lynn Karl accurately predict events in Venezuela, due to the influence of political elitist, who have hindered the state’s progress towards economic advancement. Venezuela’s lack of political stability is defined by a rational actor, due to the inability of elitist groups to invest their wealth in domestic development. According to Acemoglu’s historical approach to assessing the role of institutions in economic development, “some societies have good institutions that encourage investment in machinery, human capital, and better technologies, and, consequently, these countries achieve economic prosperity. However, countries where elitist groups represent the institutions often times block progress towards industrialization

Venezuela is not facing a famine, but improvements in poverty and nutrition were achieved between 2003 and 2012 have been almost completely worn, and well-being of the population is deteriorating dramatically. Even amid the apparent abundance a few years ago, studies by the National Institute of Nutrition and UNICEF revealed disturbing evidence of chronic malnutrition. The government 's decision to hide the real situation by refusing to publish statistics per- continents will make the crisis much more difficult to handle. In the second half of 2013, according to the INE, 22.3 % of Venezuelans lived in poverty, and other 9.8 in extreme poverty. While there have been no published figures for 2014 Vice President Jorge Arreaza announced at the annual conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that extreme poverty had declined by 5.4%, a figure that contradicts the findings of several recent independent studies. Noting the deterioration of all relevant indicators (including inflation, food shortages, unemployment, budget cuts and health coverage), the human rights organization Provide estimated that by the end of 2015 will have the same number of poor people in the 2000 (almost eleven million). This calculation was based on a study (LSMS) conducted in 2014 by three major universities, which indicated that 48.4% of households were living in poverty. The authors warned that up to a third of them had fallen into poverty situation recently and that,

Violence towards government’s opposition is a serious problem in Venezuela and it has been increasing through the years. It affects every single one of the Venezuelans and many people around the world may not be conscious about it. Even though, it can be extremely hard to solve this problem, in fact, it requires many effort, dedication, patience and of course, time. People need to understand that every problem has a solution and they cannot give up right now. It is time for each person to express herself/himself without being afraid or feeling intimidated. As a final point, it is important to understand that as humanity evolves, more problems are will be originated and it is up to society to be prepared to solve those

Venezuela's state-run oil company, PDVSA, tumbled months behind around shipments of fuel under oil-for-loan bargains for China and Russia. Those deferred shipments got political partners in a bad feeling. Now Venezuela is $55 billion dollars in credit for their missing shipments. Now they are giving new knowledge under PDVSA's operational disappointments and also their handicapping sway on the country's unravellings communist economy. In view, oil accounts is the main revenue to the Venezuela's economy. PDVSA's emergency extends to the citizens torment through triple-digit inflation and food shortages reminiscent of the winding down days of the Soviet Union. Those late cargoes to state-run Chinese and Russian organizations are more nearly 750 million, as stated by a Reuters examination of the PDVSA documents. In conclusion, at the end of January, PDVSA was late on about 10 million barrels of fuel.

The shortage in Venezuela has increased. People must wait for hours to buy milk, but in powder because the other is not available. There is a shortage of cheese, meet, chicken, flour, sugar, oil, rice, coffee, toilet paper, diapers, detergent, and shampoo. In other words, basic products that are important for everyday life are not available. In Venezuela, there is no food because the government destroyed the Venezuelan oil production. To steal more and with the oil at a hundred dollars, the government preferred to import food from outside selling it in their distribution networks at unreal prices to end with private companies that they cannot compete with. Importing food with government money was a business that made many corrupt rich. However,

The USA have been in opposition to both the Venezuelan government under President Chávez and the government under President Maduro. The USA have repeatedly imposed sanctions on Venezuela, the most pivotal of which was instituted on July 31 as a reaction to the election of the National Constituent Assembly. The Trump administration prevents all American citizens and companies from having business with Venezuela and has frozen Maduro’s assets that are under US jurisdiction. The US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster explained that the election was an “outrageous seizure of power” and openly accused Maduro of attempting to establish a dictatorship by